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W. A. SUTTON.

SKATE.

No. 249,555. Famed 0v.15,1881.

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' F UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. SUTTON, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

SKATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,555, dated November 15,. 1881.

' Application filed September 27, 1881. (No model.)

of the city, county, and State of New York,

have invented certain new and, useful Imin Skates, of which the following is a specification.

I This invention has reference to certain improvements in skates, by which they can be clamped with great facility to the heels and soles; and the invention consists of an oscillatin g clamp-plate, which is pivoted to the center of a fixed heel-plate of the runner and slotted at its front end, so as to guide a movable clamp that is operated by a connecting-rod r5 pivoted to the guide-pin of the movable clamp and secured to a pivot-lug by means of screw nuts, so that the movable clamp may be set to the size of the heel. The heel-clamp is applied to the heel by throwing the runner in .25 bracket and set-screw connection with the cam-lever.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a bottom view of my improved skate, shown in the act of applying the heelclamp. Fig. 2 is a top View of the heel-clamp; Fig. 3, aside view of a-skate with heel and sole clamps; and Fig. 4,a vertical transverse section of the skate on line a: m, Fig. 3, showing the soleclamp.

Similar letters of reference indicate correa fixed pin, 01, in the slot .of the clamp-plate A, which is pivoted by an eye to the guidepin'd at its front end and passed through a pivot-lu g, e, at oneside of the heel-plate A to a short distance back of the lug e. The rear end'of theconnecting-rod e is threaded and applied tightly to the pivot-lug ebya screw-nut,

line with the foot.- The sole-clamp consists of e, at each side thereof, by the adjustment of which along the connecting-rod e the movable clamp d may he set toward or away from the: face of the heel, according to the size of the same. When the movable clamp 01 is thus set to the proper size of the heel the skate may be readily put on the heel by placing the clampplate at an oblique angle to the runner as far as will be permitted by the connecting-rod e, placing then the heel upon the clamp-plate and swinging the runner toward and into line with the foot, by which motion the fixed and I movable heel-clamps are firmly pressed into the sides and face of the heel.

The sole-plate A is provided at one side with a clamp, J, that is guided by a slotted plate, 0, on a fixed pin, f, of the sole-plate A and adjusted by means of a set-screw, f,which '70 passes through a fixed lug, f and a lug, f, I at the inner end of the clamp-plate' At the other side of the sole-plate A is arranged a second movable clamp, D, which is guided by its slotted'plate, D, on a fixed guide-pin, g,

- ner end of the clamp-plate D, with the lug g of an intermediate bracket, D, that is pivoted toa cam-lever, E. The cam-lever E is eccentri- 8 cally pivoted to the under side of the sole-plate A and adapted to throw the movable clamp D toward or away from the sole, according as the camlever E is swung inwardlyagainst the runner or outwardly into a position at right angles thereto, as shown in Fig. 1. The outer downwardly-bentend of the cam-lever abuts against the runner or against a stop-pin, h, at the under side of the sole-plate. As the camlever E is thrown beyond its center it looks the movable clamp rigidly into position on the soleplate when the clamp has once been set to the proper size of the sole. In this manner a very simple clamping attachment for the heel and heel-plate, of an oscillating clamp-plate having fixed rear clamps and a movable front clamp,

said front clamp being actuated by a connecting-rod pivoted to the movable clamp and secured adjustably to a pivot-lug of the heelplate sidewise of the runner, so as to throw the movable clamp against the heel by swinging the runner in line with the foot, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the runner having a fixed heel-plate with an oscillating clam p-plate having fixed rear clamps and a movable front clamp, and with means whereby the movable front clamp is connected to a side pivot of the fixed heel-plate, so as to be carried toward or away from the heel by swinging the runner into or out of line with the foot, substantially as set forth.

3. In a skate, the combination of a fixed heel-plate and oscillating clamp-plate having adjustable sole-clamp at one side and a movable sole-clamp arranged at the other side of the sole-plate with an eccentrically-pivoted cam-lever connected by a pivoted bracket to 0 the movable clamp, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my nan1e,in presence of two witnesses, this 10th day of September, 1881.

WILLIAM A. SUTTON.

Witnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, CARL KARP. 

